Ring-spinning frame



' (No Model.)

'W. E. SHARPLES.

RING SPINNING FRAME.

No.30 7,875.- Patented Nov. 11,1884

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VILLIAM E. SHARPLES, OF FALL RIVER, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE DRAPER & SONS, OF HOPEDALE, MASSAOHUSETTS.

RING-SPINNING FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,875, dated November 11, 1884.

(N0 model.)

To ctZZ whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM E. SHARPLES, of Fall River, county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Ring-Spinning Frames, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention in spinning-frames relates to apparatus for separating adjacent yarns below the usual guide-eyes and for clearing the traveler.

In this my invention the separators and traveler-clearers are both attached to carriers shown as rods or bars secured to the upper ends of levers made movable in unison with the lifting-rods and ring-rail, and backward and forward with relation to the ring-rail and bobbins when the bobbins are to be doffed or the frame is to be stopped for any cause.

Figure 1 is a partial broken front elevation of a sufficient portion of an ordinary ringspinning frame with myimproveinents added to enable my invention to be understood. Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1 on the dotted line 00 m. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail illustrating iny improvements added to parts of an ordinary spinning-frame. I Fig. 4 is a detail showing part of the ring-rail, part of a lift-ingrod, one ring, part of another, and two travelerclearers, and two separators, and their carrier. Fig. 5 is a top view of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is adetail of the part immediately below the dotted line 03 Fig. 3, the flanges of the ring-rail being, however, omitted to the better show Fig. 7 is a section of Fig. 6 on the dotted line 4v. Fig. 8 is a detail showing part of the ring-rail, a ring, and travelei'elearer; and Fig. 9 is a detail of the yoke forming partof the supporting devices for the separators.

The roller-beam A. board a, guide-board I), guide-eyes c, ring-rail (1, ring 0, traveler 6, steprail 9, guide-railf, bobbins g and lifting-rods d are all substantially as in ordinary ringframesgmd will be operated as commonly practiced. The spinning-frame will have the usual number of lifting-rods d, but one of which is shown, and each lifting-rod will have attached to it an arm or ear, (2, upon which will be pivoted, as at d, a lever, 61*, which, at its upper end, will be attached to a suitable yoke, (1 (shown separately in Fig. 9,) which, upon its high points 8 8 8, receives the carrier composed ring-rail, but without the separators touching.

the ring-rail, as has been done. In this my invention the separators rise and fall with the ring-rail, but are supported, not by the ringrail, but by the ring-rail lifting-rods, so the power required to liftthe ring-rail is never Varied between the commencement and the ending of the upward movement thereof, and thereby the yarn. is more evenly and uniformly wound upon the bobbin than is possible when the ring rail during its upward movement strikes and lifts the separators. In this my present invention the separators never touch the ring-rail, and are free to be drawn back away from the latter and from between the bobbins, and are automatically so drawn back whenever the machine is stopped. The carrier referred to, composed of the rods or bars 2 2, has adjustably attached to it, by the screws 3, the separators m and the traveler-clearersn, each serew'3, as herein shown, serving to hold one separator and one clearer, the former above and the latter below the carrier, the said separators being extended forward between the yarns passing to adjacent spindles or bobbins, while the clearers are extended forward and downward, so that their ends terminate near the path in which the travelers 0 move.

To prevent the separators m and travelerclearers a from being turned aside out of correct position, their heels are grooved to embrace or fit between the rods 2 of the carrier. Each lifting-rod (1, near its upper end below the ring-rail, has a guide, 0, attached to it by a screw, 0 and the horizontal backwardlyextended arm of the said guide,properly slotted, as best shown in Fig. 6, receives within its slotted portion a lever, d. The arms of the guide are provided with a stop, 0, preferably having an anti-friction roller, over which is extended a chain, 0', attached to the front side of the lever d, a weight, 0 on the said chain keeping the said lever held forward against the said step, with the separators and traveler-elearers in working position, as shown in the drawings by full lines; but when the bobbins are to be doffed or the machine is to be stopped, the said levers, carrier, and attached separators and traveler-clearers are drawn back into the dotted-line position, Fig. 3. This is accomplished by the chain 1), extended over the sheave p on the fixed stud p, the said chain being attached to the arm f of a belt-shipping slide-rod, 19", held in suitable bearings, and adapted to be moved horizontally by the slotted or forked arm 1', fast at the lower end of a rod or rock-shaft, 1-, held in suitable bearin gs attached to the boards 10 12, common to ring-spinning frames The rodr at its upper end is provided with ahandle, 1-", as shown in Fig. 2, which in practice may be made double, so as to thus present a proper handle at each side of theframe, which may be engaged by the operative when it is desired to turn the rock-shaft 1-, and stop or start the machine by the movement of the shipper-rod p" in one or the other direction, the said shipper-rod having at its outer end any usual beltshipping fork, t,which will our brace the usual driving-belt, and by the movement of the rock-shaft and belt-shipper the said belt may be moved from one to the other of the usual fast and loose pulleys, t t, of the spinning-frame, as the frame is to run or re-v main at rest, the said pulleys being on the usual spindle driving drum shaft t. The

separators m, occupying a position somewhat above the ring-rail d, and at anniform height with relation thereto during the entire move ments of the ring-rail,act to prevent the yarns extended through the travelers e, and being wound upon the bobbin, from hitting together and breaking each other, and at the same time the ends of the travelerelearers occupy such a position with relation to the path of rotation of the travelers that the waste collected on said travelers is cleared off, as is well understood.

The supporting devices for the separators include the carrier, yoke, lcv ers d", and arms (1 I claim 1. The ring-rail and separators, and means to support the said separators above the ringrail, and a belt-shipper, combined with means to connect the supports for the separators with the said belt-shipper, substantially as described.

2. The ring-rail, lit'ting rods, and arms, and the separators and their carrier, combined with pivoted levers, and with means to 0011- nect them with the said arms and carrier, whereby the separators are made to rise and fall in unison with the ring-rail for its whole movement, and are freeto be moved toward and from the ring-rail in any position at which the said ring-rail may be stopped, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The carrier and suitable supports therefor, combined with a separator and travelerclearer, and a screw to connect them adjustably upon the carrier, substantially as described.

4. The traveler-clearer, ring, traveler, and belt-shipper, combined with means to draw the traveler-clearer back from the rings wherever the belt'shipper moves the belt to stop the frame, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' WILLIAM E. SI-IARPLES.

'Witnesses:

RICHARD B. BORDEN, GEORGE T. IVILEY. 

